."..one volume, readable and durable, telling us in detail about monks and nuns at work and at prayer This volume in "Intellectual History" is the breaking of ground, ever ancient and ever new, and should have much to say to our story-telling times." Fr.Thomas K. Carroll, "The Downside Review", 1999. " high scholarly quality and very well produced." Siegfried Wenzel, "Church History", 2000. "This whole collection is illuminating because it brings together information about monastic preaching from unexpected quarters, whether it is preaching by hermits, heretical monks, nuns, the sermon collections of the Benedictines or the sermon-writing of contemplative monks." Gillian Murphy, "Journal of Ecclesiastical History", 2000.